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The American Watchmaker Rebuilding a Lost Craft

Weiss Watch Co. is doing things a bit (or quite a lot) differently with its remarkable USA-made timepieces.

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The Golf Round That Built a Bourbon Empire
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The Rise of Prediction Culture
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Your One-Bag Weekend Getaway Packing Guide

Cover all the bases with versatile selections for your EDC, your outdoor kit, and some R&R afterwards.

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Bring the Soundtrack With You This Summer

The best outdoor portable speakers for beach trips, lake weekends, backyard hangs, and every adventure that calls for a little music.

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The Anti-Algorithm Guide to Discovering New Music
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The Color Combos I’m Wearing a Lot Right Now
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Your One-Bag Weekend Getaway Packing Guide

Cover all the bases with versatile selections for your EDC, your outdoor kit, and some R&R afterwards.

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Bring the Soundtrack With You This Summer

The best outdoor portable speakers for beach trips, lake weekends, backyard hangs, and every adventure that calls for a little music.

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The Anti-Algorithm Guide to Discovering New Music

Streaming made music infinite. Which made discovery harder. Here’s how we’re finding our way back.

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The Color Combos I’m Wearing a Lot Right Now

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The Handsome Fan’s Style Guide to the NBA Finals

The Best Wheated Bourbons That Aren’t Pappy Van Winkle
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The Best Wheated Bourbons That Aren’t Pappy Van Winkle

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Hypershell X Review: The Future of Hiking Has Legs

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The Story You’ll Tell When Someone Compliments Your Shirt

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G-SHOCK’s 10-Year Pursuit of Perfection: The Fine Metallic Series Delivers Unseen Innovation

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50 Books Every Man Should Read Before He’s 50

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The Best New Gear From Nike This Week

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150 Years of Bulova: The Watch Documentary You Didn’t Know You Needed

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Nikola’s Hybrid Big Rig

Nikola Motor Company just released details and renderings of their hybrid semi-truck dubbed One that are both completely absurd and mind-blowing. The Nikola One is a hybrid big rig that uses a combination of electric engines and a fuel agnostic turbine to give you: 3,700 ft. lbs of torque, 1,200…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Inside the Studio that Makes the World’s Most Interesting Furniture

There's a small group of mad furniture scientists hard at work in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. It's a tiny group that form a company you've probably never heard of., and they're building the world's most interesting furniture. If there's one piece from RockPaperRobot you might be familiar with, it's the Float…

By Mike Newman
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Entertainment
NOMO Designs Auto Icon Prints

Whether you're staring at the front end in the rearview, or admiring it up close, there are iconic automobiles that you'll immediately recognize from only a quick glance; NOMO Designs has immortalized almost all of them in their Auto Icon Screen Print Series. Aston Martin. Audi. BMW. Ferrari. GM. Jaguar.…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Cheap TVs: The Best Televisions Under $600

There are men out there who will spend a tremendous amount of money on their home entertainment systems. Dropping three grand on a top-of-the-line, 3D, 4k, 80-inch something-or-other makes perfect sense to them. And that’s fine. But for us—for you? Television is a mere auxiliary tool, tucked deeply inside your…

By Maxwell Barna
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Fashion
Criquet’s Players Shirt Will Help Your Game On and Off the Course

Bacon collar. It's a problem that has affected polo shirts for ages. What looks fresh right off the rack soon has a collar as wavy as a crispy breakfast side. Criquet's Players Shirt wants to put an end to this. Inspired by the classically cool polo shirts worn by the likes…

By Mike Newman
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